CAP .1$. 4 1Zervelationof the .Apocolypfe. rP" ufed by forefaithful! man, and it (hall bepublithed abroad together with the preparation to this battell, the effc&whereof !hall be this, to forewarne men trulyand religioufly touching the puni(hmentof Rome that is now comming upon it, and to nitre up men to avoide it. Yet that which we fpake touching the concealing of this Angels name, isnot fo necefiary all out, that it muff needs be fo altogether, feting the like voice that cameout ofHeaven had his name let before ir, whole it was, as the event hath taught it, Chap.i4.13. But it is likely that the name ofthis Angell isto be kept leerer. gee etaofher my people. The exhortation bath twomembers; the In t pertaineth to thofe that keepe in Babylon, whomhe warneth, that taking noticeat length of the fiilfomenefíe and loathfomene(fe of that whorifh City, theywould forfake it & depart fomewhether elfe, and that they would notexpofe themfelves any longer to cer- taine dettrudionfir her like. Wherefore there are forne of the tied, that lye bidden asyet within the fìnke ofthe impiety that is practi- fed at Rome, whom God remembrethmercifiilly in the common ddtruEtion of tie wicked. He will not fuller Lottoperifh toge- ther with the Sodomites; he ufed the like exhortationofold towards his people, when the mother of this Babylon was to be laid walte, Ier51.45. And this commandement is not to be invaine, which is here given to the people ofGod , whofe duty and property it is to hearken to the voycc of God alone. Thereforeas Mice when they do after after a fort perceiveafordund by rh:ir fenfes, that the houle where they aye is like to fall,do rim a way out oftiseir holes : fo thefe nnen, beingonce wakened by the voice of the Angel out oftheir dead sleep, (hall get themftivts out of this abominable andwofü l City with all the fpeed they can. Left ye bepartakers oftheirfrnet. For men makethemfcivegacceffaey to their fins, whole company& fel- lowfhip they do not foriake. He faith not, left ye be partners with them in their punifhments,but in their finswhich is much more grie- vous; This fear (hall be as a goade and a whip to compel! men to flye away fromRome,whenas once they (hall be convinced in their con- feiences, to beguilty ofher wickedneffe. Verfe 5. For bee finnes areheaped up. The words in the Originals are, her brines have followed, that is, her finnes followingoneupon and afteranother, knit together in a continued order , have by this meaues growne to filch aheap:, that they came up even untohea- ven at length. But if Rome be the holy City, the Chaire of Pe- e-er , which cannot erre , And that throughout all the time that the Ddddd Pope
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